Directory-local variables?

From:

Richard M Stallman

Subject:

Directory-local variables?

Date:

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:29:14 -0500

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+ A directory can specify local variable values common to all files in
+that directory; Emacs uses these to create buffer-local bindings for
+those variables in buffers visiting any file in that directory. This
+is useful when the files in the directory belong to some @dfn{project}
+and therefore share the same local variables.
The term "directory-local variables" is potentially misleading; Emacs
does not implement directory-local bindings. What this feature really
does is systematically set up buffer-local bindings for all files in a
directory.
So I think this needs to be described as a variant on the file local
variable lists.